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Put up some non-US dollar based items, perhaps like the price of gasoline, silver or gold, that have REAL global values. Using totally internal dollar based "index" values can show pretty much anything you wish them to, since inflation is then "invisable".

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Put up some non-US dollar based items, perhaps like the price of gasoline, silver or gold, that have REAL global values. Using totally internal dollar based "index" values can show pretty much anything you wish them to, since inflation is then "invisable".

Err, I guess that would make sense if I was talking about the economy in Suriname, but I'm talking about the US economy. And of course inflation has been at very low levels for quite some time.

"The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

So basically that was a long way of saying inflation in 2011 was the highest since 2007.

Nobody who wins a war indulges in a bifurcated definition of victory. War is a political act; victory and defeat have meaning only in political terms. A country incapable of achieving its political objectives at an acceptable cost is losing the war, regardless of battlefield events.

Bifurcating victory (e.g. winning militarily, losing politically) is a useful salve for defeated armies. The "stab in the back" narrative helped take the sting out of failure for German generals after WWI and their American counterparts after Vietnam.

All the same, it's nonsense. To paraphrase Vince Lombardi, show me a political loser, and I'll show you a loser.

"He who does not think himself worth saving from poverty and ignorance by his own efforts, will hardly be thought worth the efforts of anybody else." -- Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men (1872)
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